My submission for the 馃└馃獎 Bloodweave Spring Fling Artfic Swap
Prompt: "...in-game camp activities, and practical getting on with day-to-day stuff together."
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I get frustrated a bit when I hear people say that Astarion isn't okay with the Astarion x PC x Halsin relationship and only says yes to make the PC happy or so he doesn't lose the PC.
I just don't think that Larian (and Neil Newbon) would build an entire storyline for this character about being a SA survivor and then turn around and invalidate all of it just to do a 'hehehe you can also kiss Bear Daddy' thing.
Astarion does ask if you're interested in Halsin because at that point the two of you haven't slept together in a while. And he does seem genuinely worried when he asks. But when you reassure him that isn't the case and nothing will change between you, he's okay with it.
A huge aspect of Astarion's character growth is him coming to understand he has agency and value as a person. And not just agency and choice in the bigger picture sense, but also how he chooses to use his body.
By the point Halsin propositions you in Act 3, Astarion has asked the PC to refrain from sex because he's not comfortable doing it for the time being. The PC can even tell him in Act 2 that they don't have to have sex for as long as he needs. (Which I take to mean possibly forever.) The point is the emotional relationship is more important than the physical one. You've demonstrated through action in the drow scene, and possibly straight up told him afterward, that you don't expect him to do things he doesn't want to do. That you respect his agency. And he seems to both get and embrace that message.
This is a huge step for Astarion, who was forced to use his body and sexuality in service to another for 200 years. That trauma doesn't go away overnight, but I just feel like if he's confident and comfortable enough in his relationship to ask to refrain from sex, and trust that the PC will respect his choice, he would be confident enough to tell them if he truly wasn't okay with them being with Halsin.
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New Post-game HCs
Wyll, Shadowheart, and Halsin build their sanctuary, adopting all the animals and kids their hearts desire
Lae'zel and Karlach cutting through Avernus together, until they get Karlach's engine fixed. Then Karlach showing Lae'zel Faer没n, or they turn to the astral plane and overthrowing Vlaakith
Minthara and Durge (who's probably a mind-flayer) go to the Underdark together.
Gale and Astarion find and lead the spawn in the Underdark, probably some queerplatonic dynamic with durgethara
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I have a question. I cannot find the answer anywhere on google. Cazador Szarr made 7 vampire spawn (exluding the ones he locked up in his dungeons): Astarion, Petras, Dalyria, Leon, Aurelia
I'm missing two names, does anyone know them?
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"I'm with you through everything."
[Astarion x Teresta, my drow pc]
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I just finished and colored a doodle, sometimes I just get lost in the sauce and have to color my doodles ;; -sigh-
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romancing this little guy!!
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